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Power is...
... Withdrawing oneself with surprising ease from things which one does not wish to be a part of, without a drop of temptation to look and be horrified.
... Awareness of, rather than comprehension of.
... Knowing yourself and the limits of your energy, and remaining within those limits.
... Knowing what actions to take in response to the different forces you encounter (and there are many different ones; some of them glorious, some very frightening).
... Owning what is your own, and rejecting responsibility for that which is not yours.
... In silence.
... In choosing what parts of your reality you will continue to create.
... Taking the time to do what needs to be done to conserve or direct your energy.
... Not being at the mercy of anything, and not abandoning yourself to anything.
... Many more avenues of handling reality than most of us are aware of. We have three more limbs than we think we do, at the very least.
... Beyond your conscious imagining.
Cool.
Daily Zen
Make no mistake about it; if you do not find it now, you will repeat the same routines for myriad eons, a thousand times over again, following and picking up on objects that attract you. We are no different from Shakyamuni Buddha. Today, in your various activities, what do you lack? The spiritual light coursing through your six senses has never been interrupted. If you can see in this way, you will simply be free of burdens all your life.
When this mind is clear and bright
And is not covered over,
Then you are not very different
From the sages.
If you allow no wavering
From this clarity, and do not
Let it change,
And do not cling to it,
And do not neglect it:
This is learning.
Just protect it all the time
What truth am I talking about? I am talking about truth of the ground of mind, which can enter into the ordinary and the sacred, into the pure and the polluted, into the absolute and the conventional, and yet is not the absolute, conventional, ordinary, and sacred, but is able to give names to all the absolute, conventional, ordinary, and sacred. Someone who has realized this cannot be labeled by the absolute or the conventional, by the ordinary or sacred. If you can grasp it, then use it, without labeling it any more. This is called the mystic teaching.
When we reach the ultimate
Stillness, we joyfully become
Aware that this mind of ours
Is empty, without any things,
And extends infinitely in all
Directions. It is something
Like the eternal sky,
In which clouds and wind circulate
Without stopping or reaching an end.
It is something like the vast ocean,
Where fish and dragons undergo
Transformations without gaps
Or interruptions.
It has no inside or outside that can
Be pointed to, no motion or
Stillness that can be separated.
From ancient to modern, it all forms
A single whole.
As the saying goes, it is nowhere
And everywhere.
